That is what it is like in China - cyclists and overladen trucks, oft with bald tyres so smooth that a baby's skin would have more grip, do not mix. On Christmas Eve in 1994, I was on my way to Hangzhou and, in a small village, a bus had just hit the cyclist and run over their head.
Brains go a long way.......fortunately, we were through very quickly and not really long enough to take it all in, a caved in head.....a couple of minutes later and we would have seen as kangaroo courts quickly form and one is held up for what can be hours.
This was by no means the only incident...more like every trip you would see something and there was no way I would be out once dusk fell; that was a recipe for real trouble as not all trucks had lights on!